5LL #211 - Marx, Utopia, Actors, Trees, The South

For A Marxism Without Guarantees
Stuart Hall, Salvage

In his address to the ALR Marx Centenary Symposium in Sydney and Melbourne in April 1983, Stuart Hall asked the audience to accept that there isn’t any lost page of Marx’s notebooks which will tell us where to go next.

Utopia Was Never the Point: Some Thoughts About Mike Davis and Dread
Madeline Lane-McKinley, Post45

For his readers, the constant battle in Davis's prose has been, and will remain, against slipping into dread.

The Money Is In All The Wrong Places
Kelsey McKinney, Defector

The reality is that the people with the most money have devised, at every turn, new and more bulletproof ways for them to make and keep more money, and for the people who make things to make less.

Can’t See the Wood for the Trees
Malcolm Sanger, The New Inquiry

Are trees worth more standing or chopped down as wood? From Marx’s analysis of wood theft to carbon credit programs, the value of forests as assets continues to shift.

Trust the Bridge That Carried Us Over: The Failure of Operation Dixie 1946-53
Veronica Darby, Cosmonaut

Veronica Darby presents a history of the Congress of Industrial Organizations’ (CIO) failed seven-year-long attempt to organize the Southern United States.

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